Happy Friday, After Partiers! We’re closing the book on fall film festival season today, with David Canfield returning to join me and Christopher Rosen to try to answer a series of thorny questions. Which of these regional film festivals gets you the best Oscar buzz? How about the best audience? Or, most important of all to the theatrical experience: Which one actually lets you see movies in a real movie theater (as opposed to a retrofitted event space)?
After traveling to film festivals in Colorado, Canada, Virginia, New Jersey and Georgia over the past three months, David, Chris and I feel like we’ve come up with a pretty decent set of answers. And as you’d expect by now from an After Party bonus episode — exclusive, as always, for paid subscribers — we take plenty of detours, from the resurgence of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein to what feels like ever-rising buzz around Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue. David shares a story about moderating a screening at Savannah in which an audience member screamed the word “homophobia” at him and Dylan O’Brien, and in context, I swear it makes sense.
